Find your creative community.

Most of us are looking for a way to feel more creative, to get outside our routine and use our imagination in ways unrelated to our job. But it’s hard when you feel like you don’t know what you’re doing, or you don’t have anyone to do it with. 

Little Nights is a space where anyone can stretch their creative muscles, no matter their experience. 

Instead of putting the focus on getting it right, we think of writing and art-making as a social practice, and make space for anyone to try something new without the pressure of having to do it well.

Weekly events provide the prompts to get you started.

Multi-week workshops offer accountability, feedback, and craft.

And weekend retreats pull you out of your routine and deepen your creative practice.

You don’t need your MFA or a novel draft. You don’t even need to think of yourself as a writer or an artist. All that matters is you want to be a little more creative and meet some other folks who do, too. 

Join us for a night out and find your creative community. 

 

Our Story

Hi! I’m Josh Krigman. I’m a writer, teacher, and facilitator in New York City. 

I’ve taught creative writing since 2016 to writers of all ages and levels of experience. I’ve led memoir workshops for senior citizens on the Lower East Side, summer writing programs for teenagers in Greece, and many others in between. 

Across all ages and experiences, there’ve been two things that everyone has needed: a low-stakes space to experiment, and a chance to talk about their work with others. 

Little Nights was born out of an interest in making that space for everyone. And not just for writing. Since 2023, we’ve led over 100 writing, drawing, and storytelling events for thousands of participants, as well as multi-week workshops and weekend retreats.

Whether you’re looking for a night out, a new routine, or a few days away, we’re here to help you find your creative community.  

—Josh

 

Our Team

Josh Krigman

Founder

Josh Krigman is a writer, teacher, and facilitator in New York City.

He has taught creative writing at Hunter College, the United Nations International School, 826NYC, Center for Fiction, and for National Geographic Expeditions. Currently, he is a private writing coach and instructor for writers of all ages and levels of experience. Through Little Nights, he’s led over 100 writing, drawing, and storytelling events for thousands of participants across New York and New Jersey. 

As a writer, Josh has been awarded residencies from Vermont Studio Center, and received his MFA in fiction from Hunter College. His plays have been developed and staged by The Abingdon Theatre and Psychopomp Productions, and his short fiction has appeared in Barrelhouse, The Summerset Review, Akashic Books, Necessary Fiction, and elsewhere.

Prior to Little Nights, he co-founded Club Motte, an international storytelling series that held events in London, New York, and San Francisco, and continues to run in Berlin.

Hannah Mode

Retreat Lead

Hannah Perrine Mode (she/they) is an artist, educator, and designer working at the confluence of art and environmental science. Through making, teaching, and organizing, she harnesses creative practices to deepen human connection to Earth systems and foster intersectional approaches to climate justice. 

Hannah works extensively with environmental and outdoor organizations to develop curricula, create programming, and teach art. She currently serves in faculty/leadership roles with the Juneau Icefield Research Program and Inspiring Girls* Expeditions, and previously was a visiting artist with Chulengo Expeditions, the International Arctic Science Committee, Parks Canada, Alaska State Parks, Google, Vermont Studio Center, and Central Michigan University. Hannah has exhibited at museums and galleries around the country, in addition to creating large-scale public artworks.

She holds an MFA in Visual Art from Mills College and a BS in Studio Art from Skidmore College. Hannah lives in Providence, RI and spends her summers in Alaska.

Chris Faroe

REtreat Instructor

Chris Faroe is a musician, writer, and creative career designer based in the Hudson Valley of NY.

Using patterns and practices derived from sustainable design, he helps artists, musicians, and other passionate humans map their way towards radically sustainable creative careers.

After 9 years of researching creative life design, Chris has helped hundreds of folks find clarity and feel more free in their creative practice.

He also likes to nerd out about tea, tiny houses, bicycles, and liberation.

FAQs

  • We host writing, drawing, and storytelling events where everyone, no matter their experience, is invited to join and participate at the level of their own interest.

    We provide the materials, the prompts, and a few games to get the conversations started, and the rest is up to you.

    There’s no pressure to make or share anything you don’t want to, and there’s plenty of room to explore, experiment, and try something new.

  • We’re lucky to partner with a variety of venues around NYC, from museums and non-profits to wine bars and bookstores.

    For a current list of everything we have coming up, check here. 

    Interested in bringing an event to a venue near you? Send us an email!

  • Not even a little bit. Each event is designed specifically to accommodate every experience level, whether you’re between novel drafts or it’s your first time trying. 

  • We lead six-week writing workshops, both online and in-person, designed for writers working in fiction and creative non-fiction.

    Unlike our events, where the crowd changes from one night to the next, these are fixed groups that meet weekly for the length of the session.

    The contents of these workshops vary; some are focused on developing strategies and routines, while others are about giving and receiving feedback on your projects in process. Common among them is that you don’t need to apply to join, and no prior writing experience is necessary.

  • Our quarterly three-day weekends are structured around writing and visual art workshops, community-building, and solo time to work. We think of these retreats as an expansion of the vibe we’re cultivating at our events: low-stakes experimentation, discovery, and art-making as a social practice. 

    Our participants are often not professional artists or writers (though they are also welcome!). Instead, they come from different professional backgrounds—journalists, project managers, engineers, baristas— but they all share an interest in having writing and art-making play a bigger part in their lives, if only for a few days.

    You can learn more about our retreats here.

  • Great question! Artist residencies are typically focused on providing you with the time and space to work on your art by yourself, away from the rest of your life. These are beautiful and necessary and not what we’re doing.

    Our retreats are focused on providing you generative prompts, new strategies for building and sustaining a creative routine, and introducing you to a community of like-minded others. While you will have solo time to expand on the work we do together, that time is only one element of our retreat.

    Unlike our events and workshops, you do have to apply to join a retreat. However, we don’t ask for a writing sample or an art portfolio. Instead, you’ll complete a short questionnaire that we’ll use to determine how to build the best possible community for our weekend together.

  • For first access to tickets, join our monthly newsletter. 

    You can also follow us on Instagram, or check this current list of everything we have coming up. 

  • Yes! We’re in the middle of launching Little Nights in new cities, including San Francisco and Los Angeles. 

    You can also join an online workshop or join us at a weekend retreat in upstate New York.